Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strain of thoroughbred seed corn, sold through the corn belt by Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. in which Wallace is now a small stockholder. He holds no stock in Wallace's Farmer which after an expensive 1929 merger with its competitor, Iowa Homestead, passed out of the family's hands...
...decade. Rivers of America is conceived as "a literary and not an historical series." Unfortunately it is distinguished neither as literature nor as history. The worst features of regional writing-shallow local color and uncritical acceptance of apocrypha-make the books little more than extensions of the pioneer tales that fill magazine sections of Sunday newspapers. As an example of such journalism, Powder River is no worse than its predecessors, except that Struthers Burt, 56-year-old Philadelphian, best-selling novelist and owner of a dude ranch in the Jackson's Hole country of western Wyoming, has contributed...
...thrill of reality, and in the vision it offered there lay the reward. For all these the Vagabond was grateful. And he was grateful for Harvard, too, because it fitted in and was fitting him . . . Perhaps he would have the chance someday to trace the steps of some pioneer, doing the job quietly, methodically, the way they taught him at Harvard, Perhaps someday he would even have some hens. Even more than for the present, Vag was grateful for the future...
Died. Colonel William Preston Lane, 87, football pioneer; of heart disease; in Hagerstown, Md. Colonel Lane was the last surviving member of the Princeton team which played against Rutgers in the first intercollegiate football game ever played in the U. S., in 1869. Rutgers won (6-4), did not repeat the victory until last week...
...when he resigned as professor emeritus of gynecology to devote his time to Baltimore's Howard A. Kelly Hospital, which he had founded in 1892. During his 30 years at Hopkins he achieved fame as the inventor of various modern kidney, uterine and ovarian operations, as a pioneer in the use of cocaine anesthesia, as the inventor of the Kelly cystoscope and proctoscope, instruments for examining the bladder and rectum...